Trump Lays Siege To The Federal Government From Inside Its Walls

Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register for the e-mail version.

‘Maximize pain’

The government closed again exposed the way the Republicans, especially but not exclusively in the Trump era, see the government as a little more than a social service agency for the poor. In this distorted vision of politics, the government’s closure and dismantling is equivalent to punishing Democrats since the support of the Democrats and are supported by poor.

Trump, as he used to do, gave the floor to this punitive approach to governance earlier this week, saying the silent parts aloud:

Trump posted on social networks this morning that the director of the OMB, Russ Vought, would seize the closure not only to impose the layoffs previously threatened but to dismantle more government agencies. As would be expected, the administration has already taken advantage of the closure to be the subject of the obturation of America (which remained in the waves during previous closures), a practical track on the order of a judge to reintegrate licensed workers and restore programming.

In the vision of the Trump world, where you dominate or are dominated, it is obviously not a big cognitive leap to transform the closure of the government into a chance to punish blue states and democrats. Likewise, abusing government resources to lead the battle of messages on closure is perfectly on the brand with Trump’s point of view on the government as its personal game.

The Nyt said it:

The Trump administration took action on Wednesday to maximize the pain in the government’s closure, interrupting billions of dollars of funds for the states led by democrats while preparing a plan to set up serial balls potentially.

The movements of the White House appeared both unprecedented and punitive …

And to be clear, it is not I who blame the Democrats for having adopted this strategy. They did not bring this to themselves. If it was not the closure, it would be something other than Trump to justify punitive actions – or simply do it anyway without even a bankruptcy of justification.

But integrated into this thought, this is so much what sent the Republican Rail Party. The government is not for everyone, only for winners of the last elections. The government’s advantages are preferentially distributed on the basis of tribal loyalty. The government is a liberal game that the conservatives refuse to play. In power, the conservatives do not direct the government, they occupy it as a force of invasion.

All these political attitudes are an anathema of democratic governance, civil society and the rule of law. This is why the political fight of our time is so asymmetrical. Trump does not care if the government breaks, leaves it in ruins or inflicts extreme collateral damage along the way. He takes the government hostage because he thinks (rightly so) that the Democrats care about it and want to save and preserve it.

This is the perverse advantage he has in government closure negotiations. This is what won the chances of political compromise that could have been possible at a different moment with a different policy. Trump does not care. It’s like negotiating with a terrorist. He will hold anyone and anything hostage if it advances his immediate interests.

This is why the old model for the coverage of newspapers of a government closure is therefore not convincing. It is not an impasse on policies or legislation. It is certainly not Washington’s ancient “blockage”. It is not even a partisan fight in the traditional sense. Trump and the Hordes Maga besieged the government of the interior of its walls, just as they automatically made its doors on January 6. We have never seen anything like this in all our history.

Kavanaugh stops

The humor of legal nerd on social networks (I know, but I support …) is a question of Kavanaugh, a piece on Mess stops, a real legal term. Kavanaugh stops the hollow opportunity of the Brett judge Kavanaugh in the emergency decision of the Supreme Court last month which enabled the Trump administration to take over the “itinerant” ice raids in Los Angeles.

Kavanaugh was considering obtaining an imaginary world in which immigration agents would only “briefly” “supreme” suspected suspicion that they were undocumented migrants, then quickly send their path the temporary detainees who could prove their appropriate legal status. Everything is Fiiiine, insisted Kavanaugh:

… As for the judgments of people who are legally in the country, questioning in these circumstances is generally short, and these individuals can quickly free themselves after having clearly explained to immigration agents that they are American citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

Legal experts and immigration lawyers immediately obtained contempt on the Kavanaugh agreement – which used a form of “brief” or “briefly” eight times in its nine pages – and subsequent events have born how Kavanaugh was twisted.

In Alabama, a construction worker who is a citizen born in the United States has filed an alleged collective appeal that he had been arrested twice at work after his real identity document was deemed insufficient by immigration agents. But it is nothing compared to what would have happened in Chicago this week.

Immigration and police officers have made a descent into a five -story building in Chicago in the middle of the night that would have swept away many American citizens. The Ministry of Internal Security said that 37 people were arrested during the RAID. But the residents say they were detained for hours while their citizenship statutes have been verified, the Sun-Totes reported:

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of the many residents held by federal agents during the Southern shore raid. American citizen, he said that agents have crossed his door and dragged him into zipped ties.

Johnson said he was attached outside the building for almost three hours before the agents finally let him leave.

The ABC News affiliate spoke to a resident who reported similar ill -treatment:

ABC7 spoke with relevant Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said the ice agents took everyone to the building, including her, and asked questions later. …

Fisher said she was released in the corridor of her apartment complex at the corner of the 75th and South Shore Drive in her night shirt around 10 pm only to find armed ice agents shouting “police”. …

Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 am …

Is this the kind of reasonable suspicion that Kavanaugh had in mind?

Mass deportations: edition of capturing you

• The 5th Court of Appeal of the 5th circuit will repeat the Alien Enemies Act in which a panel of three judges found President Trump illegally invoked status in wartime.
• An immigration judge – whose employment of the executive power was probably at stake – rejected the request from Kilmar Abrego Garcia to reopen his expulsion case. The judge said that there was “insufficient evidence” to show that the Trump administration would send Abrego in Uganda, even if the DHS posted on social networks that he would take him to Uganda and that a government lawyer said it “can Remove it in Uganda.
• If you want more about the epic trump decision of the epic era of this week by the American district judge William Young of Boston, Chris Geidner goes in depth: “Young does more in a decision than perhaps that all civil servants made this year to detail the specific methods that President Donald Trump and the Trump administration use to have known illegal and unconstitutional acts external can ensure that these acts, and the means of judgment – and the legal system.

Trump’s attack on Haut Ed: “Compact” edition

The previous one noted that the threat of the Trump administration for Pep Federal Funding with loyalty on the agenda of Trump manifested itself as a “compact” so that universities sign in order to obtain a preferential financing treatment. The so-called compact devotes many Trump administration attacks against higher education.

Lisa Cook survives for the moment

The Supreme Court rejected a Trump request for his dismissal from the governor of the Federal Reserve, Lisa Cook, to take effect during the case.

The purges: always, always absurd

• Under the online public pressure of a conservative activist, the Doj Trump dismissed a main national security prosecutor at the American prosecutor’s office for the Virginia Oriental District who was falsely accused of being resistant to the pursuit of former director of the FBI James Comey. The prosecutor, Michael Ben’ary, was not involved in the Comey case, reports CNN.
• On Wednesday, Trump’s White House suddenly dismissed almost all members of the National Council for Human Sciences.
• The chief of the presidential library of Dwight Eisenhower would have been forced to resign after refusing to authorize President Trump to offer King Charles a sword that belonged to Eisenhower during the visit of the President of State to the United Kingdom last month. Todd Arrington, a federal career employee, has resisted the sword’s request because it belongs to the American government and under federal regulations on the law and agencies, he could not provide it, according to reports.

The rest of the story

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